To plan well is an art
I never used to plan
I like to do
Doing is fun
You make progress
create
achieve
Planning seemed a bit dull by comparison
Gradually I realised how important it is to plan well
To begin with I thought
Oh so this is how it feels to be boring
and now I love it
and I don’t think it’s boring at all
Now I look around and see
the whole world does planning in some form
Some plan well
others just plan
We plan for everything
there is a planner a jotter a notebook a white board a black board an app
for every plan you would ever want to make
You can even do your planning with dots
amazing
But there is one area we really don’t plan well
and it’s our wardrobes
Finances too for some of us
but wardrobes in general we don’t plan well at all
We buy haphazardly
and shove it all in
ramming the door shut
When we open the door sometimes things come falling out
and sometimes they’re so stuck in there nothing moves at all
Lack of planning means
we say
I have nothing to wear
Nothing fits
I don’t like anything
and feel rubbish about ourselves and our lives and the general state of everything
But it needn’t be like that
It’s great fun to plan what you are going to wear
on a daily weekly and seasonal basis
You should definitely have a collection of occasion wear clothes
The ones you wear for going out
You need a goto wardrobe of 5 items, well 4 actually plus a group of items
Little black dress
Black evening trousers
Formal day dress
Informal day dress
and lastly accessories for all of them
Start with these then build on them
If you have this group of items in your clothes collection
you will always have something to wear in which to go out and have a great time
and be yourself
And not only that, but be relaxed too because you’re not fussing about a new outfit
that you’re not sure about
or which doesn’t fit properly but you bought in a hurry
An end to all that
Peace and harmony for your wardrobe
The full blog post which goes into more detail about the 5 clothes groups which you need in your wardrobe for occasionwear is: How to plan your wardrobe – basic clothes list for occasion wear
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